Category: World

In Kyiv, António Guterres reaffirms UN’s ‘full commitment’ to Ukraine

UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated the UN’s full support to Ukraine in a press conference with the country’s war-time president in Kyiv on Wednesday, his third trip to the country in less than a year. “The position of the United Nations, which I have consistently expressed, is crystal clear: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a…

Amsterdam’s red light district relocation proposal sparks concerns

The Amsterdam City Council has put forward a proposal to set up a large new erotica centre, relocating the city’s infamous red light district. The planned building will have 100 places for sex workers, with space for work breaks and other facilities, according to the proposal. The council said it wants to relocate legal prostitution…

Nationwide strikes continue to cause serious disruptions in France

Demonstrators once again took to the streets of France on Wednesday decrying President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to raise the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64. Trade unions have called for rolling, open-ended strikes in a bid to bring the country to halt. French train and metro drivers, refinery workers, and garbage collectors continued their…

Denmark, the first country to import CO2 and bury it undersea

Denmark inaugurates on Wednesday a project to store carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath the North Sea, the first country in the world to bury CO2 imported from abroad. The CO2 graveyard, where the carbon is injected to prevent further warming of the atmosphere, is on the site of an old oil field. Led by British chemical…

‘Dark day for Georgia’s democracy’: Mass protests over foreign agent law

Georgians protested against a controversial foreign agent law on Tuesday that some claimed will stifle freedoms in the country. Riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse tens of thousands of protesters outside the parliament building in Tbilisi, the capital, long into the night. The law, drafted by the ruling Georgian Dream Party,…

Husband in Spain ordered to pay Є200,000 to ex-wife for domestic labour

A Spanish judge in the town of Velez-Malaga in Malaga, Andalusia, has recognised that a divorced woman should be compensated with Є204,624.86 as compensation for the work at home and care performed during her 25-year marriage. According to the ruling, the woman, who is 48-years-old, performed all the household chores “exclusively” while also contributing “punctually”…

‘A silent epidemic’: Have murders of women increased in Europe?

Gender-based violence has been dubbed a ‘silent epidemic’ that affects women all across Europe. According to EU statistics, one in three women from the age of 15 upwards has experienced physical or sexual violence. In Spain for example, four women were murdered in different cities all on the same day in January. Similar tragic examples across…

Two Americans found dead after violent Mexico kidnapping

Two of the four Americans kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel last week have been found dead. The two survivors are now back on US territory, one with serious but not life-threatening injuries. The four were found in a wooden shack in a rural area near Matamoros, the Mexican border town where the events unfolded.…

Women are disproportionately harmed by the fossil fuel industry. This has to change

Today is International Women’s Day, and just like every year in recent times, fossil fuel companies will exploit this day to advertise their career options for women, call out the gender gap in science and engineering, and sponsor cultural events celebrating women and gender minorities. As progressive as this might sound, it is nothing but…

Helping Spain’s forgotten victims in the fight against gender violence

2023 is off to a dramatic start in Spain with ten women so far victims of gender-based violence. Joshua Alonso lost his mother six years ago to her ex-partner. At the age of 25, he has to take care of his eight-year-old brother. They are among the 391children orphaned since 2013 because of domestic violence…